Gomez has thrown herself into recording, E! News reported earlier this week. (“She’s going to be in the studio,” a source told the outlet. “That’s what she’s focused on.”) And as the network’s orange mascot, Ryan Seacrest, Tweeted out yesterday, the pop star/actress will have a new record ready by early 2013.

An exact release date for the follow-up to 2011’s When the Sun Goes Down has not been shared, but Seacrest at least revealed this: “@selenagomez just told me new album in march fyi.” (The duo were together in Texas yesterday — Gomez’s home state — to attend a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Children’s Medical Center Dallas.)

Gomez told MTV earlier this year that she’d love to get her best friend, Taylor Swift, on her next record. No word whether that’s actually happened, though — or whether Gomez will take some inspiration from T-Swizz and start kissing-and-singing about her famous ex, Bieber.

And speaking of Biebz, the kid reportedly wrote a song especially for his “Selener” – a tune he previewed to a certain famous friend. The Black Eyed Peas’ will.i.am heard the as-yet-unnamed track earlier this year. “The song was dope,” will said during an appearance on MuchMusic’s New Music Live this summer. “He was like, ‘Yeah, I wrote it for Selena. It’s great.’ And it was really awesome. It was really, really dope.”

If Gomez is, in fact, ready to have album No. 4 in stores by March, it’s unclear whether she’ll have time to include any late-breaking tracks dishing on her break from Bieber – though she might not want to, anyway. Earlier this year, she was adamant that the record wouldn’t include any details about her personal life.

“It’s not going to be necessarily, ‘Here’s my tell-all,” she told MTV this summer. “It’s going to be more of something that people could say, ‘It could be that or it could be this or it could be that.’ At the end of the day, I only make my music because I want it [to] be really fun, and if I could have people dance to it, relate to it, have a good time, that’s all I want.”

Gomez’s last album, the teen-pop collection When The Sun Goes Down, debuted at No. 2 on the Canadian Albums Chart when it arrived in July 2011, according to Billboard.